Courting Miss Jackson.

Otago Witness, Issue 2209, 2 July 1896, Page 52

Courting Miss Jackson.

" Miss Jackson," he began, as he removed his hat and scraped his foob a« they met on the street, "I dun h&b de happy facility to, meet up wid yo' de odder night at de cakewalk."

" Yes, sab," she sofbly replied. " What Gist distracted my abtenshun to yo' was yo'r purtm»ss," he continued. "Ib was de mineral opinyun dab yo' was de handsomesb gal in de ball. In fneb, yo' outshonß de shiniest ob dat vast aggregation ob shiners.'.' Sbe bowed her thanks. "What next distracted my abtenshun was yo'r clothes au' 6byle. One glance proguosbicatcd de fapt dab yo' was a bo'n lady. I felt, d«vfc "me'an''yb' was two eagfei 'rr,ong a lob ob'cr'ows. Does yo,' anticipate de euit of «lothea-I had on dab night r Made +o order, an' cost 'me seben dollars. Ojat-tails'had de re^'Jar New York' droop, an' dat celluloid callah jest frowned all de mashers down. r > More Am one hundred pussons called me a swell., \ , '* Bat day and night do t'uighb ob- yo'r melli- . ■fluous lublines s filled me heart like de mus'c ob a. c*mp meatin'. Wen I was decoratin' de walls ob Msrso Jones's barnwid de whitewafh, I t'oughb you an' Mis' Cleveland wa3 de most exciuciatin' lubly ladies iv de worl'. like de angels ia do Sunday school books, on'y dt-y ain't beiu'ful brack like you is. Yer Bhowed, too, dib you lubad me, fur shore." She looked blankly at him. She bowed again. * " Perhaps yo' percolated de remembrance dat I gquozs yo'r hand, Miss Jackson, an' yo' must have observed dat it was my inteosbun to ambulate a N few remarks when interrupted by dab very common an' undistinguished pusson known as " "My husband, sab. ! " she icily interrupted. "Fo' do Lawd, Miss J*ckson, but yo' ain't dun married to Moses Pnillips ? " " Two weeks ago, sab." " An' j o' ain't Miss Jackson no mo' ? " "No mo\ Bah." "Deul dim bin afod?" " Yes, * ah." "Huh! tcuße me, please. Reckon I made a mistake. I ccc cow whar it was. I got yo' mixed up wid Evangeline Thompson, dab pU' by, stylish youDg lady dat was de belle ob de occasion an'-oilled fo'th de undisguised admirit'oa ob de gigantic assemblage. Yes, I recollect yo'. Yo' was walkin' around on de elbow ob Moses Phillips, aa' people was a-sajin' dab yo' had a b-imba^ine dre-s dub b'torged bo yo' grandmadder, aud dib "Moses daa had a par ob troussM made oub ob'a blaukeb. G>od-day, Mrs Phillips^ Sense my beiu' m s!;ook."— -Leaven worth Times.